OrthodoxWiki:Project Ideas

OrthodoxWiki (wikifying Orthodoxy since 2004) has been serving as a directory, an encyclopedia, and an archive of Orthodox images. Soon, we will launch OrthodoxSource, which is to be a repository for Orthodox images, audio, video, and documents. This will serve to clarify the mission of each site and provide a space to build in a different direction.

Many other projects are possible as well. In some cases, new wikis, tied in to OrthodoxSource as a common image and media repository, would be beneficial. I am willing to handle the technical side of things and arrange for hosting, etc. - but I can't develop these projects alone. They will take a lot of community involvement to build.

I am curious to know what kinds of projects seem most interesting or fruitful to build.

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Wikimedia Projects

By way of example, WikiMedia (the foundation that oversees Wikipedia) has the following projects:

The Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. It is a common resource repository to all the various Wikimedia sister projects regardless of language.

Wikisource – The Free Library – is a project to build a free content wiki library of source texts, along with translations into any language and other supporting materials. It is located at Wikisource.org.

Wiktionary is a project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. It is located at wiktionary.org.

Wikibooks is a wiki for the creation of books.

Wikijunior is the working title for a set of books targeted to children aged 8–11 being developed at the Wikibooks. This effort will consist of both a website and magazine.

Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki. It allows anyone to report news on a wide variety of subjects. Its mission, as stated on the main page of the English version of its website, is to "create a diverse environment where citizen journalists can independently report the news on a wide variety of current events".

Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species.

The Wikimedia Incubator is used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing projects.

Other Projects

WikiIndex is a directory of Wiki sites, which aims to categorize all wikis by various criteria. It is related to AboutUs.com, which aims to pull in information for every site on the world wide web.

Future Possibilities

OrthodoxQuotes - A huge collections of Patristic and other quotes?

OrthodoxTexts - A place to post full text (public domain, etc.) books (separate from OrthodoxSource, where they would probably be posted as PDFs instead?)

OrthodoxSites - Something like WikiIndex or AboutUs.com, but that caters specifically to the Orthodox community?